Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 43

Saints, canonization by local synods, 63, 81

Saints' Days, 80; appointed by synods, 63, 81

St. Alban's, monastery and town of, 513

St. Edmund's Bury, monastery and town of, 510

Sanctuary, 75, 306; right of, in churches, 75, 306; in churchyards, 308; in certain persons, 308

Saxon clergy, 21, 23, 38, 57-83; vestments of, 62, 83

Saxon codes of law, 39, 57

Saxon n.o.bleman, house of, 47

Scholastic theology, 137

"Sentences" of Peter Lombard, 137

Serfs admitted to Orders, 130

Sermon helps, 223

Sermons, 215

Service books and vestments which each church was required to possess, 67, 189, 195

Services in church, 200; attendance at, on Sundays, 79, 201, 203; on week-days, 205-207

"Services," 479

Sham priests, 143, 144

Shawbury, 112

Sh.o.r.eham Church, 89

Shrine of Edward Confessor, 187

Sick, visitation of, 161, 237, 239

Sins, eight deadly, 214; seven deadly, 221, 226, 230

Slavery, 72, 81-83, 332

Slave-trade, 82, 83

Sompting Church, 55

Sons of clergy, 262, 273-278

Sponsors, at Confirmation, 55, 69, 234; at Baptism, 234

Stigand, Archbishop, 84, 86

Stokesay, 119

Stratford, John de, Archbishop, injunction on costume of clergy, 164, 188

Students, 140-144

"Summa Theologica" of Thomas Aquinas, 138

Sunday, observance of, 69, 73, 79, 205; penalty for desecration of, 201, _note_

Surnames of ecclesiastics taken from their birthplaces, 135

Surplice, 193, 194

Synodals, annual sum due from inc.u.mbent of a benefice to the bishop, 397; paid on attending the synod to procure the holy oils.

Synods, 41, 67, 337

Tapers carried at baptism (Harl. MS. 2278, f. 76); at marriage, 496; churching, 496; penance, 315; funerals, 496

"Taxatio" of Pope Nicholas IV., 381

Teaching by priests, 63, 214, 216-223; by parents, 69

Temples, Anglo-Saxon, 9-11; Norse, 18, 19

Ten Commandments, exposition of, 218; metrical version of, 239

Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 40; holds a synod at Hertford A.D. 673, at which the Heptarchic Churches unite into the Church of England, 41; divides the Heptarchic dioceses, 41; encourages the parochial system, 45

Thirteenth century, character of, 548

Thomas Aquinas, 138

Th.o.r.esby, Archbishop of York, his manual of teaching, 222

Thornbury, staff of domestic chapel, 413

t.i.the, 78; small, 99, 101

t.i.tles for Orders, 145